Firm and Provider News

Clifford Chance Managing Partner Matthew Layton has been appointed to the advisory board of The Center on the Legal Profession (CLP) at Harvard Law School, which seeks to advance the modern practice of law by increasing understanding of the structures, norms and dynamics of the global legal profession.

iDiscovery Solutions, Inc. (iDS) has announced the opening of its new office in Seattle at 720 Third Ave., which marks the consulting services and expert testimony firm’s continuing growth. Their other offices are located in Washington, D.C. and Costa Mesa, CA.

Thomas S. Ross, a successful entrepreneur and former member of the Republican National Committee who specializes in government affairs and project finance, and Brian M.P. McGlinchey, an economic development specialist and former projects director for then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden, have joined forces to form the new government relations affiliate of the law...

A team of Frankfurt-based King & Spalding real estate attorneys advised Orion European Real Estate Fund IV, C.V., a subsidiary of Orion Capital Managers, on the purchase of a 19-property commercial real estate portfolio from two Credit Suisse real estate funds in a deal completed May 26.

Manish K. Mehta has joined the Chicago office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group. He joins from Brinks Gilson & Lione, where he founded and chaired the Indian practice group.

Fish & Richardson has been named to The National Law Journal’s (NLJ) “2015 Intellectual Property Hot List” as one of 15 firms “that accomplish great things in the realm of intellectual property law.” This is the fourth year that Fish has been named to the NLJ “IP Hot List,” which the publication started in...

Sills Cummis & Gross is pleased to announce the arrival of four new real estate attorneys, Jason L. Sobel, Cecilia I. Lassiter, Tessa L. Schultz and Joseph M. Vigliotti.
Jason L. Sobel is of counsel in the Newark office. He joins the firm from Genova Burns LLC. Sobel received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark in 1997 and a B.A....

Dykema recently announced that James S. Brady has received the Marion Hilligan Public Service Award from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School to reflect a lifetime of community service. He was honored in May during the annual Law Day luncheon hosted by the law school and the Grand Rapids Bar Association.

A King & Spalding pro bono team achieved a victory on behalf of a client May 15 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, when the court affirmed a lower court’s order that had denied a petition to repatriate the client’s 9-year-old daughter to Spain.
The appellate court affirmed the district court’s June 2014 rejection...

Dykema has announced that Gina Torielli has received the Barbara R. Smith Award from Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit for her role as a member of the Grand Bargain Mediation Team for the City of Detroit Bankruptcy. She and other team members were honored during the Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit’s Awards Luncheon on May 18, 2015, at...

iDiscovery Solutions, Inc. (iDS) is pleased to announce they will be attending the Information Governance Initiative’s (IGI) inaugural Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO) Summit as a gold sponsor. The CIGO Summit will be held at the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel in Chicago on May 20-21.

Cornerstone Research, a leading provider of economic and financial consulting and expert testimony, has announced that Ariel Pakes, the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has joined the firm as a senior advisor. Professor Pakes is one of the foremost authorities on industrial organization, technological change and econometric...

Akin Gump has announced that Alison L. Chen has joined the firm as a partner in its tax practice in Houston. Ms. Chen focuses on federal taxation of corporations; partnerships, including publicly traded master limited partnerships (MLPs); and limited liability companies, primarily in the energy sector. She comes to Akin Gump from Andrews Kurth.

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP has announced the appointment of David E. Fink as managing partner of the Los Angeles office and Lee S. Brenner as the practice group leader for the firm’s Entertainment and Media Practice.

As part of the continuing expansion of its Intellectual Property practice group, Dr. William R. Lambert has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property practice group, in the firm's Palo Alto office.

Akin Gump is advising an ad hoc committee of noteholders in the negotiation of the terms of recapitalisation of Afren, a UK plc with oil and gas assets in Africa and Kurdistan that is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.